hahaha 8 years worth of firecrackers eh Dravid ?
Awesome man... i must say i envy you man.... man how i wish i was in india for this festival.
Love Aus but really miss india expecially when the festivals are on... so much more fun with extended family

Just to give an idea of scale, a few years ago, i read that the approximate amount of personal fireworks (ie, the stuff purchased and exploded by average joes and not the purchase the government/organisations make to do displays) for Diwali is around half a million tonnes of explosives.
Thats a pretty insane number.

Well I blew up fire crackers till 1 in the morning and it's 4:46 am right now, and I'm still awake(I hate Jet Lag) Can't wait till tonight when the real fun starts. Who else is going to blow up a lot of crackers tonight?

Wow, that's horrible. To be brutally honest though, you've got to have a bit of a deathwish to work in a firework store - that's like being the guy who puts the triggers on pistols.

Well the stores here are not just for fireworks. Any general store usually starts to sell fireworks during this time of the year because it will generate a lot of sales for them(There is a lot of money made selling fireworks during this week, and I mean LOTS of money). It's not like people start working for just a firework store you know. Like this store at the local market sells books and stuff for school usually, but when it's time for Diwali or Holi or Independence day, they sell whats needed to celebrate those holidays. So if you work there to sell books, you will eventually end up selling fireworks.